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The Editor Of Cappicade, Cappicade this year.
"The printers originally agreed to accept decisions made by our legal adviser on possibly libellous or obscene items", he said.
"They later retracted and said it was just for libel, not obscenity.
"When Masskerade came out they got the wind up."
Mr. Smith said items were censored out by
Mr. Smith said he had once relumed from the printer and within half an hour they had phoned and said that on the basis of a second legal opininion they would not print the material.
"Our legal adviser said that in his opinion no one would examine that material within that period."
"Their rationalisation was that they would send us a letter from their solicitors explaining their reasons for deleting the copy", he said.
"They painted out faces of swimmers in one item and even cut one page at such a late hour that we had to leave a hole with the word 'censored' in it."
Mr. Smith gave an example of one piece which they refused to print because it was actionable.
It is printed on the page.
Mr. Smith said
" Turf Digest among others", he said.
Mr. Smith said it was also part of the contract that he would be responsible for the actual pasted-up proofs ready for reproducing.
"They said we could only design the pages very roughly."
"They said I would be usurping the compositor's functions and would declare the magazine 'black' unless they could do the paste-up."
Mr. Smith said he was put in the "embarrassing" position "in having to tell some design students from Polytechnic I had recruited they were not wanted".
Mr. Smith said he would be making a report to the Publications Committee in which he would discuss the matter in more detail.
"It is generally considered that this was a test case for Salient next year", Mr. Smith said.
Thirty - Seven people attended a Special General Meeting of the Students' Association on Monday night.
This is thirteen less than the necessary quorum.
It was the second Special General Meeting called within a week.
The Draft Constitution for the proposed Student Representation Council was to have been considered.
Members of the Drama Club also proposed motions in order to establish the priorities for use of the Memorial Theatre.
There once was a monk in Algeria,
Whose morals were totally inferior,
One night just for fun,
He took out a nun.
And now she's a Mother Superior.
"But in the light of my experience I think we are getting better service out of town."
The editor of the
"He showed strong disapproval", Mr. Ingram said.
He said although he had little knowledge of the difficulties with the union that Mr. Smith had experienced, he agreed that they threatened to declare it "black".
He referred Salient to the Production Manager for that incident but he was not available.
• The "censored" article in Cappicade read:
My first is in roof but not root,
My second is in lump but not in hemp,
My third is in cove but not in love,
My fourth is in kemp but not in demp,
I will always bring you luck,
Read the answer is you're stuck.
Simon Arnold has resigned from Executive.
He was elected unopposed in August last year to the position of House Committee Chairman.
Asked for the reasons which prompted his resignation, Mr. Arnold said: 'I have got steadily pissed off with the whole thing.
"It is terribly frustrating being expected to make decisions on behalf of 5000 students and getting no response from them.
"The only justification I could have for continuing would be the status and kudos, to quote
"The students aren't getting anything out of my continued presence on executive; I'm not (the cocktail parties for the year are finished) and a paid servant like Mr Boyd could do the job just as well."
Mr Arnold will be writing an article for the next issue of Salient outlining the reasons for his resignation.
Salient has received a press release from the International Commission of Jurists about a commission report on "The Erosion of the Rule of Law in South Africa".
The statement provides the commission's official attitude to South Africa's legal system.
The head of the New Zealand branch is Sir
The statement is as follows:
A State in which a small minority of little more than three million whites rule over nearly fifteen million people of a different colour and racial origin is in itself an anomaly. Such a situation is all the more shocking when the majority are not only completely unrepresented in the Government and Parliament of the State but are the constant targets of victimisation and exploitation by the small white racialist minority. In the twentieth century this is a situation which obviously cannot exist.
Under the "Sacred Trust" to use the word of the Mandate given by the League of Nations to the Union of South Africa in 1920, South Africa was given the control and administration of South West Africa, a territory comprising 320,000 square miles and a population of 554,000, of whom only 69.000 are white. The mandate imposed the obligation upon South Africa to promote to the utmost the material and moral well-being and social progress of the inhabitants. Because of the complete failure of South Africa to comply with the obligations, the United Nations in October 1966 revoked the mandate given to South Africa. Thus South Africa is now in illegal occupation of this territory.
To what extent are the principles of the "Rule of Law" being applied in South Africa itself and in the South West African Territories, which it continues to occupy in defiance of the United Nations? This is the subject of a report just published by the International Commission of Jurists.
The report, "The Erosion of the Rule of Law in South Africa," consists practically exclusively of quotations from laws and judicial pronounce merits emanating from South African sources. The inevitable conclusion derived from this systematic actual analysis of the South African legal system as applied to non-whites in South Africa and South West Africa is that the "Rule of Law" has been so eroded and perverted as to become itself" an adjunct of a tyranny based on racial discrimination.
In the Report one finds confirmation of what the Interna-
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The Current debate on the New Zealand Security Service is being carried on at a superficial and often impractical level. Assertion, counter-assertion and political naivety are all in evidence. What I will try to do is recapitulate the history of the recent debate, trace out some of the political implications, and conclude by suggesting some measures that could change our security set-up.
The present debate has a long history. Social commentators and others with political affiliations have long questioned both the need for a security service at all, or at the least considerable modification of the existing system. This debate has (again) been revived at this year's Labour Party conference, when
The Prime Minister has made two significant comments: first that an international spy ring is operating in this country: second that he would be prepared to comment on Roger Boshier's assertions at a later date—the most important of these being the allegation that he had in his possession a complete list of security agents and that this had come from inside the Security Service. (Under questioning Mr. Boshier has been unable to directly substantiate this allegation, but he has produced strong inferential evidence to support his views.)
Quite clearly, it is in the Prime Minister's interests to cast as much discredit as possible on Mr. Boshier's evidence, since in doing so he could also cast some secondary discredit on the Labour Party's judgment and on the stand that it took at the Conference. Thus, the changing nature of the Security Service has already become another party political football—and this is the last thing that ought to happen. The substantial question at issue is clear: what sort of Security Service can be provided which fulfills its functions with the minimum degree of personal interference, poses the minimum threat to civil liberties, and offers the maximum degree of freedom of expression and action?
At present the debate is bogged down on whether there should be a Security Service at all: that is a non-issue. While New Zealand is a party to regional defence alliances (e.g., Seato, Anzus, Anzam) and to other non-military but equally vital economic arrangements, such as those between Commonwealth countries, we have no choice but to provide for effective security. If we wish to pull out of these alliances then and only then will the abandonment of a security service become a matter for debate. To recommend disbandment at this stage is to be politically naive: the Labour Party has chosen the course of political realism.
There are a number of alternative courses of action open to those who object to the present security system: firstly it is possible to institute some protective devices; second, the "Communist-hunting" activities of the Security Service could profitably be abandoned in favour of more desirable objectives. To expand on both of these points.
One of the most objectionable features of the present Security Service concerns the nature and accuracy of the information that is supplied. There are a number of cases on record where individuals have been transferred from one Government department to another because of allegedly being "security risks". In some of these cases it has been admitted that the information supplied was false, and in at least one case, substantial costs have been awarded. Many persons, and particularly those associated with the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties, have long been concerned to provide a greater degree of protection to, and recourse for a wronglymaligned person. One possible avenue exists: the Ombudsman.
It may well be that the statutory powers conferred on that office can be interpreted so as to provide for a vetting of "secret files". This course of action could only be implemented if a specific complaint was lodged. The Annual Reports presented by the Ombudsman to Parliament contain no evidence that suggests that such a complaint has been lodged, thus one cannot be sure that Sir
In addition to this specific recommendation, it seems to me necessary that the Security Service switch the emphasis of its activities. Public comments by
In summary: Let the debate on our security service continue. But please focus attention on the real question: What kind of service caters for New Zealand's interests best and infringes personal liberty least. Above alt the issue needs to be taken out of the party political arena and politically de-fused: it is much too important for that.
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Extravaganza this year sets new standards of immaturity and irrelevance. The music and the acting are just fine, but the socalled script is pathetic. Will somebody tall me exactly what is funny about an actor standing before art audience and mouthing words like "shit" apparently limply for the sake of doing it? Admittedly most infants would find this spectacle amusing, but Extrav is not deviled for the benefit of small boys at the stage of enjoying lavatory humour. (And I'm sketches — I'm talking about almost the entire show!) There is nothing intrinsically funny about slang or boorish allusions to sex. Nor are impersonations of policemen or politicians automatically hilarious. All these things have to be at least slightly clever and set in a genuinely amusing context.
A loud, unfunny, unoriginal, mostly
Stephen Hunt.
•Review, p. 9.
In Salient 8 the following extraordinary sentence appears In the review of Ingmar Bergman's "The Hour of the Wolf"—"She bears a breast to show a mark Johan has made ..."
I have not, sir, gone Into the full ramifications of afterbirth, nor do I cease to wonder at the Increasing precociousness of today's infants. I fancy, however, that this scene must create cinematic, if not medical History.
After much deliberation I have decided to seek those Interested in the formation of a Wagnerian Society within the university. We would listen to the works of Wagner, discuss the works, read books on the subject, and generally discuss Wagner's ideas. We would also do our utmost to reflect all that Wagner thought was good, and pure.
On this campus there is a group of people that could only be described at Traitorscum. These villainous Lord Haw Haws are of the opinion that the best thing they can find to do with their money is to give it to hordes of screaming ravenous wogs. That these creeps want to pay for an invasion with their own money is not enough for them; they want our government to subsidise our own destruction. India, as the epitomy of all underdeveloped countries, has ...
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I Am sure there were many people who were amused by Alister Taylor's article on the Labour Party conference. However, apart from some smart abuse at a member of the party's executive who could be immediately recognised by Mr Taylor's description, the article contained the same hackneyed phrases and cliches we can the Labour Party which have become popular among left and right wing critics of the party over the last couple of yean.
Indeed, I was disappointed that Mr Taylor, who is, I believe, himself a journalist, could not produce anything more perceptive than the cry that the Labour Party has no policy, a statement which could just as easily have been road in the Dominion or N.Z. Herald.
His description of Labour's leadership as "an entranehed and bureaucratic USSR type hierarchy" might seem imaginative and cutting although it was merely a steal from Owen Gager's idea of labour leaders as the "Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party" (Salient. May 21, 1968). Another interesting reference was the mention of political commentators Professors Chapman and Jackson who "knew by heart their lines for the numerous radio and TV interviews ... they've learnt them at the three or four or five or ten previous ... conferences they've attended. Nothing ever changes." An interesting comment, especially when compared with tome of Professor Chapman's remarks at the end of the conference which he said was "such a contrast to the last three that it's startling". Mr Taylor said that the young radicals come full of hope "and at the end go away shattered". But Professor Chapman told us that "youth have got their major beachhead"—a representative of the party's executive.
For all its faults, the Labour Party Is the only political party in New Zealand which offers any hope to the left wing in New Zealand (among whom I count Mr Taylor) for the implementation of the progressive policies they espouse. Withdrawal of troops from Vietnam, radical re-organisation of the Security Service, a more liberal education policy than Mr Muldoon's, the lowering of the voting age to eighteen; all these are policies which we can expect a Labour Government to implement.
I do not expect or ask Sunday Times or the Red Spark.
P. L. Franks,
Hutt Youth Branch, N.Z. Labour Party.
Last week 170 students left forum to take part in a inarch to Security Service HQ in Taranaki Street.
The marchers were protesting against the activities of the service at Vic, as reported in the special edition of Salient.
The demonstrators, carrying a variety of placards, arrived at their destination at about 2 p.m., after marching through the centre of town.
They were then addressed by one of the protest organisers,
Mr. Gager stressed the repugnance he felt for the Security Service under its present form, describing it as a "secret police" organisation.
"We do have some checks, for example Brigadier Gilbert's representations to the Parliamentary expenditure committee," he said.
"The S.S. estimate was $272.000. Mr.
"This represents an expenditure of $3.000 pur communist —it is worth it?
"The logical assumption is, then, that they are ashamed of what they are doing," he said.
"The West has always attacked communist countries for their secret police. We are attacking in our society what the West has attacked in the world."
"Rather, it is a forum to air more rational ideas about why the Security Service is unnecessary in its present form," he said.
"It is tacitly agreed that our society is democratic.
"This should guarantee the right of freedom of conscience and freedom of speech as long as it does not impinge on the right of other people.
"It is only when an individual takes action which is likely to endanger these rights that he becomes a threat.
"The Security Service should be a judicial authority and should judge men's actions, not thoughts.
"We have acted by coming down here. There are police here to prevent us from infringing other people's rights—this is sufficient."
Having been informed that
His challenge was not accepted in spite of a chant of "We want the Brig."
The demonstration was quiet and controlled throughout. Large numbers of police and newsmen, including the NZBC were present. The number of cameras in the crowd caused considerable comment.
"We've shown the people who have said they are de fending freedom what freedom is—even they have had an opportunity to speak" Mr. Gager said in conclusion.
"I hope they have learnt something about freedom."
The Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award (now for an unpublished short story) and the Katherine Mansfield Young Writers Award, also for an unpublished short story submitted by persons 24 years of age or under, will again be made available this year.
The first award was made in 1959 as a result of co-operation between the Ban of New Zealand and the New Zealand Women Writers' Society.
The President of the Auckland University Students' Association, Mr.
"If someone showed it to my young daughter I'd knock him down", the Mayor is reported to have said.
"I reject the assumption that the capping book is pornagraphic, obscene or blasphemous", Mr. Rudman said.
"I reject the right of the Mayor to decide the moral standards of the community.
"As I have said before, we will respect the leaders of our community when they are honest enough to slate their views or the real problems of molality in our society.
"The capping book is a comment on our society.
"It is said that we have to use sex to convey our concern for society, but the blame must rest with society, not with the capping book."
Sponsored by Bank of New Zealand in association with N.Z. Women's Writers Soc. Inc.
Entry Forms Available From Studass Office Closing Date 31St July, 1969
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tional Commission of Jurists has constantly been saying: that in areas where racial discrimination is the basis of society and is supported by otherwise formally valid laws, the legislation ceases to be based on justice. Discriminatory laws both in principle and in practice lead inevitably to the erosion, one after the other, of the elements of the "Rule of Law".
An unjust and discriminatory social order inevitably arouses opposition; stern measures are then taken to deal with all opposition and to maintain by force the social order which has engendered the opposition. The opposition is then driven underground and to violence. Thus a policy of racial, or religious, discrimination ultimmately results in the destruction o fall legal safeguards, including those which are not directly related to discriminatory laws.
Perhaps the most tragic aspect that is brought out by the report is the overall impression that when the judiciary has come to apply the legislation it has—in so many of the cases cited—shown itself as "establishment-minded" as the executive, preferring to adopt an interpretation of the law that will facilitate the executive's racialist policy rather than to defend the liberty of the subject and uphold the "Rule of Law".
The new publication reproduces the report of the observer, Professor
Lawyers from all over the world protested against this trial. Under international law the court had no jurisdiction to try the accused, since South Africa's mandate to administer South West Africa had already been revoked by the General Assembly. Moreover the accused were tried under the repugnant provisions of the Terrorism Act.
"I am satisfied that the rule of law is being upheld in South Africa." — Reported statement by Sir Richard.
The Pretoria trial is a striking example of the limited extent to which a trial, however fair in itself, protects the individual in a state where other aspects of the "Rule of Law" are neglected or overridden. It is therefore of the utmost concern that other persons are being held in detention under the Terrorism Act and are, it appears, shortly to be subjected to a similar trial.
Four hundred charity collectors are urgently needed on Procesh Day (Tomorrow).
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Only an hour or two of your time is required.
Remember, prizes for the most successful contestant.
One Wet Friday last winter I saw an old, cantankerous man in Aro Street trying to crank his 1934 Chev. into life. Both he and the Chev. were part of an earlier era, and, in their time, were probably a reasonable combination, but on this wet day in 1968 were an unhappy combination of marriage and inefficiency.
The Chev. had lost two doors, had a flat lyre, had only half a bonnet, the roof was ripped, and it had holes round the running boards which exposed its inner workings. The man, shuffling first to the left, then to the right, and every now and then cranking furiously, was bad tempered and ignorant. He knew precious little about cars and seemed quite out of sons with reality. The Chev. actually spluttered into life on one occasion but when it stopped the man kicked the mudguard and swore. He was a sad fellow and I would have quite liked to have helped him, since I know a bit about old Chev's, but he aroused in me an innate distrust, so for good or bad I left him to his problem.
The interview with
However, back to the interview. At the Labour Party Conference Brian Edwards asked if I would agree to a 'Gallery' confrontation with Gilbert. It seemed an awesome responsibility, to speak for so many concerned with civil liberties, but as Edwards had in mind a long discussion and Labour was now committed to a re-organisation of the service, I agreed. Gilbert at first refused, but after the police came seeking information about the agent who had handed over the list and reported back what I had said, namely that I didn't know who leaked the list from Security, he changed his altitude. 'Gilbert is now nibbling." said 'Gallery' producer
However, during Wednesday night Gilbert lost the nibbling urge. By mid-morning Thursday, in spite of Gilbert's reluctance to answer enquiries, the final position was clean to bring the
The fact that the P.M. found some legislation that had been in his drawer for three months (nothing to do with the present argument, of course) and decided to tell this to the press pulled the carpet from under Gilbert's feet. Implicit in the P.M.'s announcement was the admission that the Security Service, as it is presently constituted, is a failure.
On Friday I was ready to listen carefully to any points Gilbert could raise in defence of the Service. However, the interview confirmed my worst fears. Gilbert is inarticulate, and completely lacking in the kind of political and ideological sophistication one would expect to find in the Director of a nation's Security Service. My main criticisms at the Labour Party Conference, namely that Gilbert and his colleagues are an anathema and incompetent, were confirmed. When the filming was completed Gilbert was very, very angry.
Television is a revealing medium. The abbreviated transcripts of the interview that appeared in daily papers hide the emotional and physical responses of Gilbert to Brian Edwards' questions.
Gilbert was uneasy and nervous, reasonable when one considers that he will be out of a job if Labour gets elected, but the uncontrolled gulp that the camera caught when Edwards produced the list of agents (yes, it was a real list, rushed by NZBC-sponsored taxi to the studio just before the interview was to be filmed) was more revealing than all the spoken words. Similarly, at the end of the programme when Gilbert spluttered out his "rely on the integrity and intelligence of the staff" reply to the question "who protects me against you?" I felt he had almost had enough. I was glad for his sake that the interview ended at this point, but was sorry that so little time was available. The following questions, among others, should have been asked.
The happenings at the NZBC after the interview are as interesting as the interview itself. After the film was made, Gilbert insisted that Banks' name be excised. The NZBC were happy that the interview be screened exactly as it was filmed. Gilbert was not happy, either with his performance or with the inclusion of Banks' name. The instruction to excise Banks' name came from the Security Service.
After the film was screened, the NZBC received abusive calls. Some thought Brian Edwards a communist agent (some think I am too. I received a letter on Friday addressed to
A guide to eating and drinking in Wellington
If Perchance you should be wandering down Stout Street in the small hours of the morning you will most probably have to run the gauntlet of a small horde of leather jacketed youths who are apparently trying to conceal something. A closer perusal leaves one with the thought that these youths may be deployed by the Wellington City Corporation Public Relations Office for the precise purpose of concealing the object that is revealed to the gaze—to wit, the Kiwi Piecart. My considered advice to the student is to steer well clear of this place.
Item: a large bottle of soft drink purchased at 12.30 a.m. one week ago cost 30 cents. The vendor suggested, upon my complaint, that I try one of his competitors. Like where, at that hour?
Item: a meat pie bought from the same establishment cost 20 cents. The pie was cold and the meat content, to say the least, was not high.
Item for the piecart: You get no points from me, baby.
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The Duke of Edinburgh must be doing a very slick trade as a tourist attraction these days. By this I mean that 40% of the people go there to drink and the other 60% attend either in the hope of seeing a drug addict or in the hope of Wing seen and thought to be a drug addict. The drug addicts, needless to say, don't drink there. The end result is an uncomfortable feeling of being stared at all the time. Apart from this, there is a reasonable sort of atmosphere, fairly good beer and very good barmen. One of them actually shouted one or two drinks on a crowded Friday evening. 3½ points.
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Nothing puts me off my food more than an antiseptic restaurant. The food is ordinary, but probably quite well cooked; yet the taste seems to disappear as if soaked up into the decor. The Chez Lilly in Dixon Street is just such a place. One feels a desire to hunch over one's food to protect it from the predatory waitresses. The soup plate is whisked away while the soup spoon is in mid air and the main course slapped in front of one. At any moment one expects a neon light to appear on the wall urging one to stop smoking and finish up quickly for the next wave of diners. Super-efficiency ain't for me. One point.
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Just as the Gresham Hotel its equivalent in bars. 'Downstairs things are perhaps passable with one or two barmaids who are able to say something other than
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My, My! I was looking for the Bistro the other night and being slightly befuddled I took a left turn instead of a right turn and ended up in the most darling little bar. It was called the Corner Bar, I think; in the Royal Oak anyway, and I'd describe the atmosphere as comfy. I would. The sweetest wee fellow served me a pink gin, and as Clem The Mad Barber had just done my hair it was no wonder that I was the centre of attraction. A lovely chap in purple trousers and frilly blouse sat down next to me and we talked about all sorts of things. I had a really gay time. Super place dear. Five points and a kiss.
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Normally I am not at my best in the morning. My eyes take a good deal of time to accustom themselves to the harsh light of day. And again. I rarely breakfast anywhere but the cold confines of my flat. But on the rare occasions I do venture out I find myself involved in some Kafkaesque nightmare, was seated in The Cellar looking calmly at the wall on which there appeared a picture of the Confederate charge at Bull Run which slowly dissolved into an enormous blue and grey breast. I chewed my bacon carefully and looked back at the wall. The breast had now changed into a flying saucer and a group of underfed Martians. Gurgling and frothing I rushed out. I don't know what the place was like. But any place where the walls behave like that makes me suspicious.
How did you come to be involved in the Security Service?
Well, I was in the Army, you know, and after Che Seato Pact was signed, I heard that a new Security organisation was being formed and I knew someone who joined. The whole thing was reformed in 1956, and we took over a lot of the old "Special Branch" staff. My Army training came in useful, clean boots, closed ranks, night operations, searching out the enemy—that son of thing. The training was fun too—a lot of it was done with the Americans. In
Do you exchange information?
Oh yes. We tell the South African Security Organisation who is involved in the anti-South African tour movement—we've stopped dozens of people getting into South Africa that way We co-operate with the CIA people here, share files, that sort of thing; share "checking" of New Zealanders applying for American visas. We've stopped quite a few left-wingers that way; got scholarships withdrawn.
On what grounds?
Communism, or belonging to left-wing organisations—things like the USSR Society, China Society, Committee on Vietnam, Asian Studies Club. We also take movie and still photographs of everyone who takes part in demonstrations. As well as checking 18,000 people every year for "sensitive" jobs we get files on probably double that number. We've got files on over 600,000 people now. That's why we needed such a big building in Taranaki Street. To keep all the files. Of course we have offices in all the main centres too—Christchurch, Auckland, Dunedin. Got quite a few staff—nearly 90. But it'll still be quite a small Government department when we become separate.
What about the Universities?
They're hot beds of communism; why in the 1940s and 1950s there was even a Communist Party branch at Victoria University, the worst of them all. But we've stamped that open kind of activity out.
How did yon do it?
Well, at Victoria we put one of our best agents on to the job of infiltrating the Communist Party branch.
How many people were in the branch?
Fifteen real ones, but hundreds more sympathisers
You mean that they were a real threat; how?
Fifteen dedicated subversives can be very powerful. I mean men like
What was he doing?
Oh, he wasn't writing for the paper, he just looked after subscriptions.
What happened to the agent employed at Victoria?
Well we got all sorts of interesting information from him. He stayed in the home of a prominent Communist, masquerading as a friend He took recordings of all conversations which took place in this house, and of course the phone was tapped. All the information was put in the personal Security files of the people involved of course. This agent was also sent to spy on left-wing members of the staff at Rungotai College in Wellington. But although he got some very good information on some members we weren't able to stop a very prominent left-winger becoming President of the Post Primary Teachers' Association in recent years. We did our best to stop this, but the trouble is all these Teacher, student and union organisations are ruled by sympathisers. They don't listen much to us This agent eventually gol exposed. We were frightened the Communists would kill him or that he'd be kidnapped by the Soviets. We had to dispose of his services.
What did you do?
Well we paid him compensation; this was hidden in the Estimates, and we gave him a one-way airfare to the USA and a recommendation to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for employment.
How did you pay for the air fare?
Oh we get a certain number each year from the CIA and FBI for our agents to attend courses in the USA on counterespionage work.
Did this agent get his CIA job?
No, he didn't. In fact it was all very embarrassing because he came back and wanted more compensation than we'd given him. We told him if he stayed here he'd get killed by the Communists, but he stayed on and took his case to the Ombudsman. Sir Guy refused to give him any more money, so this ex-agent went to his friends at Truth. (Of course in our job we know them fairly well. We do them favours and they publish certain articles for us when we want). Anyway the Truth story blew-up and all the Communists found out what had been going on. But by then we had all the information we wanted and they couldn't do much. We got this agent a job on a Hawke's Bay paper, where he's now got quite a senior position.
You've made a few serious slip-ups at Communist Party Conferences haven't you?
Not really, I mean they're only found our microphones and recording equipment twice haven't they? In 1960 and 1965, that's not a bad record. And we've done some valuable things too. We followed
What else did you do to Rewi Alley?
Well, our boys and the CIA got on the same plane when he was going back to China. Followed him all the way. Then just out of Hong Kong one of our best agents walked up the plane aisle and put a poison-pin in his sleeve. Inside his elbow so when he moved his arm it would go inside. Just like that! They re meant to kill without any clue, when they go in. But old
Looking back on the Godfrey affair at Auckland University, in 1967, how do you think the Security Service came out—was its image damaged?
Those damned students nearly wrecked us. They victimised
What started off the Godfrey affair?
The Russians. Trying to subvert New Zealand students.
Who were the Russians?
Two espionage agents.
But I thought one was a member of the Soviet Youth Council and the other a representative of the Soviet Youth Travel Agency and they were here trying to arrange a tour of Russia for New Zealand students. Also I understand that they had the right visas, had been checked by the External Affairs Department and had been in New Zealand for 10 days before the Security Service found out about them?
That may well be. But we don't want to encourage New Zealand students to go in Communist countries. We've got a good way of life here and we don't want it changed by strange called "intellectuals" going away and coming back with strange ideas. We've had enough of that. We don't want them encouraging the Russians or Chinese to come here. I don'l want my daughter to marry a Chinese or a Russian. They're not like us.
Why didn't you tell Mr Holyoake then that New Zealand shouldn't be allowed to visit China in 1967?
We did, but he wouldn't listen. He said we couldn't be the same as the Americans and not let New Zealanders into Russia. But we tried to stop individual students from going; ringing them up and that sort of thing
What happened when the students came back from China?
We interviewed some of them, we even got the leader of the NZ Group up to Wellington for a talk about China We got the names of all the New Zealanders in China, that sort of thing. And we found out what was happening in China.
Don't you have any other way?
Oh yes, we listen to Radio Peking to hear what they're instrutting the local Communist Party to do. A former JIB man went to China in 1968 also, as part of an Australian student group.
Do you believe in academic freedom?
What's that As I see it those who push the term are just c——t sympathisers and converts. It's an excuse to say what they like. They use it to push good New Zealand citizens like
But Milner is a New Zealander, a Rhodes scholar, an eminent authority on English, why shouldn't he come here?
But he was involved in the Petrov affair!
What evidence do you have for that?
Well, ah ... ah ... he was involved.
As I understand it he was cleared of any suspicion be the in vestigating Commission and his statement denying any involvement was printed in most New Zealand papers at the time.
I don't care—he's dangerous and we stopped him coming here!
How?
Firstly we rang that radical Professor Chapman in the Auckland University Politics Department. He was our main opposition in the Godfrey affair We thought Milner was coming to his department to lecture but Chapman denied it. We couldn't find where Milner was coming to, so we gave the story to Truth—you know, all the Petrov affair and that sort of stuff. Very effective. Then we rang some people at Canterbury and Auckland Universities and told them some more details. They got the invitation to Milner withdrawn, and he wasn't able to come. We stopped him.
The most encouraging sign of
The VUW Literary Society and d Harcourt (who is so largely responsible) are to be congratulated. I be be most surprised if this endeavour is anything less than a magnificent ess. The Music Society has made careful preparations and the Students' sciation has seen fit to grant a reasonable sum for the production of "Argot", s seems to auger well for the future.. And so, to prayers . . .
Anthrax Spores are Still Alive and Lethal on The Abandoned Scottish Coastal Island of Gruinard More Than Two Decades After The Biolocical Warfare Experiments That Took Place There During World War Two.
take the sentence for instance at the end of its tether, a privy and you its augmenter. evil is to urge your mind with the clutter of the literal verb. but think on cinematography: where there is a logical persistance of the image beyond recognition except in bitten chambers of the brain where contusion in the prospect of the subjunctive rages long awhile. its beauty as the intuition is breached by its implications then does the language shift into the infinite.
the sentence is an imposition. that grammar is a pencilwound in the shadow of a verb, what is necessary is morphology of the Word itself is a symbolic form.
A Chemical-Tipped Rocket Could Punctuate The AtmosPhere's Ozone Shield And Thereto An Avalanche Of Ultraviolate Rays Would Shrive All Exposed Life Below.
it is the century's condition that the lingua should be offioered by the meek, the estates of the brain are synonymous with the estates of the kulaks. an age between these estates and so the potential to suicide the personality. we are all of adepts of madness. a psychosis of violence is done the Word.
vietnams staged in the individual at every perception. divorce between the intuitive experience and the imposed response. in this way and forever it seems we needle ourselves with a voilence beyond measure. our curiosity is what is destroyed by this process of subtraction, we are all implements of the invading Them and we are paranoid because Them has no identity, the word is mad.
Plague Anthrax EncephaloMyelitis Brucellosis And ParRot Fever.
A Poetry reading will be held in LB1 tonight, commencing at 7.30 p.m. and featuring the work of some young New Zealand poets. The Music Society will also provide two items, one of which has been composed for this occasion. The admission charge will be 20 cents.
Programme
• Baroque music performed by members of the Music Society.
• Poetry readings by
• First performance of a composition by a contemporary New Zealand composer,
• Interval.
• Poetry readings by
• Jazz and blues, performed by an Auckland group.
• Russell Haley's play, 'The Adoration of Za'oud".
Sam Hunt: Born
Jim Horgan: Born
Dennis List: Bom
Derek Melser: Bora
Ian Wedde: Born
Alan Brunton and
Lyell Cresswell:
Haley.
When were you first aware of painting?
Gordon Walters: I have been drawing as long as I can remember. Possibly I became aware of painting when I was at secondary school, on looking through copies of "Art in New Zealand"' in the school library.
Did your parents or environment encourage, or contribute to this interest?
G.W.: My parents encouraged me to draw and to continue on to study art (drawing and painting) because this was what I liked to do. However my immediate environment offered little direction or encouragement for this study. When I was a small child my father entertained me by making hundreds of small coloured drawings for me, and I feel that this is very relevant for my subsequent interest in art.
When did you first become interested in painting seriously?
G.W.: I began to study painting in the evening classes at the Wellington Technical College School of Art, along with drawing and design, but it was not until after several years that I began to develop any clear idea of myself as a potential painter. Until this time I just enjoyed drawing and designing without any very definite idea of where it was leading me.
Was there any person, book, idea, artist or incident which stimulated you to paint?
G.W.: In the-beginning just about every art book, reproduction, artist and student whose work I saw stimulated me to paint and draw. I received encouragement and help at this stage from Roland Hipkins who taught me design at art school. I also studied painting with
In 1953 when I returned to New Zealand after being overseas for several years I was in a condition to be receptive to local material. Schoon's preoccupation with Maori design at this time led me to begin my own intensive examination of the subject. I was not satisfied with the ideas of Theo Schoon on how Maori art should be applied and used. Theo Schoon is craft orientated, as his years of work on decorating gourds show. A considerable exchange of ideas and much discussion of the subject took place between us.
Do you see your work having essentially changed in character or style since you began?
G.W.: Essentials of my work have not changed much. It has been largely a matter of developing insights into painting, and a struggle to free myself from nature; that is working from nature. Essential character of my work has just become clearer as I have continued, but not without much struggle, false starts and wrong directions.
In the copy of Studio which was devoted to New Zealand painting in 1948 the writer notes, "Walters work seems to have been inspired by the hills, bush and landscape of New Zealand." Is this so?
G.W.: In my earliest work landscape provided me with subject matter. I often used landscape as a vehicle for ideas borrowed from reproductions of contemporary European painting which I was always studying. At this time I was interested in surrealist ideas particularly those of Tanguy, Arp and Masson. I saw aspects of New Zealand landscape as being decidedly surrealist. As well as this I was also beginning to be interested in abstraction by way of Arp and Klee to Mondrian.
It is interesting that while much painting done in New Zealand during the forties and fifties was concerned with depicting the rural landscape, your work was developing within the international contemporary style. Could you comment on the way your work developed at this time?
G.W.: In the late forties and early fifties I was for most of this time living overseas. Consequently, influences on my work were much wider than if I had remained in New Zealand. It was during this period that I was able to see myself for the first time as a New Zealander and begin to come to terms with the implications of this. I never much liked the idea of being a New Zealand painter, I just wanted to be a good painter and the more I saw of European and American painting the more the provincial nature of most New Zealand painting became clear to me. At the same time it was only by coming to terms with my being a New Zealander that I could go on to paint. At this time, during the early fifties, I was strongly in the grip of Abstract Expressionism, which seemed to me the best, the most important painting being made in the world and I had to come to grips with it. In New Zealand, keeping up with the art world abroad is suspect, but for me art can only be judged by the one standard, the most vital painting being produced in the world.
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"Two of New Zealand's best abstractionists have paid their respects to Maori design. The configurations standing for aerial views cities in the paintings of
"The same motif is put to systematic use in
— Architectural Review, December, 1968.
It is noted that your work incorporates a Maori motif. Is this so?
G.W.: The koru-like form which is represented in my paintings is not a reproduction of the koru used in Maori kowhaiwhai. The motif as I use it is a horizontal stripe ending in a circle. The Maori koru is a curved rhythmical form and in this respect differs from the geometrical form used in my work. The specifically Maori or primitive influence on my use of this device is in the principle of repetition, but even here it is not used in a Maori way. The motif is used to establish rhythms that are for the most part deliberately mechanistic and relate to the present time, not to some bygone age.
Have you been influenced by primitive art?
G.W.: The various styles of primitive art have been a continuing influence on my work. I have been most interested in Polynesian art with its emphasis on the repetition of a formal element or motif. To this is added Melanesian design, in particular New Guinea art with its often sophisticated use of figure-ground ambiguity.
Would you care to comment on the history and development of the motif in your painting?
G.W.: The motif used in my painting is a variation of the motif used in New Guinea and Maori art. It is not used in any direct way, and has been modified to express different rhythms in my work.
This motif provides me with the expressive means I need for my work, at least for the present. The form is used to establish relationships and is varied in both positive and negative forms so that an ambiguity between figure and ground is created. This gives the painting its life. One cannot read both at once so the eye is kept continually on the move. However the motif is merely the starting point, the success or failure of the work depends on the use that is made of it.
Are there any developments in painting overseas which you are especially interested in?
G.W.: Recent developments in American painting with its sophisticated use of advanced technology particularly interest me. It seems to open up new and exciting possibilities for developments in art.
Have you any observations to make on the situation of a contemporary painter living in New Zealand?
G.W.: The prospects for a painter in this country are at present rather limited. A small population means small amounts of money to spend on art. It all seems to depend on money, and the example of Canada is interesting in this respect. A crash programme to develop the arts is in progress, with incredible results.
What painters at present working in this country do you think you have an affinity with?
G.W.: I feel I have little affinity with any other painter at present working here.
What painters at present working in this country do you admire?
G.W.: I admire the work of several painters, in particular I like McCahon's work and Woollaston. I admire their integrity and independent outlook. Among younger artists, Don Driver is interesting because of the way he is coming to grips with three dimensional colour structures.
What are the ingredients necessary for the developing of a strong contemporary movement here?
The need here is for a constant flow of contemporary exhibitions from overseas, backed up by informed critical writing. A more fluid exchange of art teachers, preferable young, on a short term basis from overseas would also contribute. After, say, four years, art teachers should be replaced unless they are making a real contribution.
You seem to have developed, in a way in isolation, in Wellington. Would you care to comment on Wellington, its lack of an art environment, and this influence on you?
G.W.: There are advantages when one develops in relative isolation, one either sinks out of sight or becomes stronger; this has been the problem of almost all New Zealand artists. Wellington seems to me to be the ideal place to develop toughness in. The mass of non art produced here and displayed by the establishment each year, together with the disapproval of "modern art" means that one has to be really convinced to keep going. The difficulty of seeing even good New Zealand work in Wellington its however a real disadvantage along with the lack of other painters of like ideas to talk to. I have managed this by frequent visits to Auckland, and every few years a visit to Australia, where I have been able to see interesting new work and talk to painters. Wellington is so bad in this respect it would be difficult to exaggerate its isolation from the mainstream of twentieth century art.
Have you any general comments in reference to your painting?
G.W.: My painting is abstract and it has no meaning in the literary sense. The forms are used to establish relationships and create tensions. Unfortunately, people are still in the habit of looking for meaning in abstract art, and this is what hinders any imaginative response to the formal relationships which is what the painting is about. In my work I also try to avoid any self-conscious hand-made quality, anything that distracts from what the painting is really about has no place in it for me.
The New Zealand tradition is largely one of landscape painting, and though in the beginning I began painting landscapes, I had comparatively little actual contact with the land and the countryside. Since I was born and brought up in the city the urban environment was more real to me than the countryside. Reproductions of contemporary art nourished me and with my interest growing in abstract art I felt impelled to go overseas to see what I felt was the only art I could relate to.
Extrav is back in the Dark Ages. The "If in doubt say 'shit' " school of production (for want of a better word) has returned with the proverbial whimper. In fact the only decent thing that this year's Extrav controllers have done towards its audiences is to name the affair after At last the 1948 Show. Presumably anyone paying good money to see a pale imitation of that has only himself to blame.
From printed programme to finale there was abundant evidence of lack of direction in both sense of the word. No one has actually admitted to being 'producer' in the generally accepted mould. No unifying theme or effect was aimed at or at least readily discernible. Perhaps it was all a question of "Too many
The show was not entirely short of talent of course but what talent there was suffocated beneath the weight of a tedious succession of puns and gibes directed very often at non-existent targets. An extremely good band was ignored to the point where the only memorable tune given to it was the National Anthem. This sets could have been handled by a stage crew of one and the lighting man's duties were limited to the flicking of the occasional switch.
Despite this going through the motions one or two bright spots did appear. John Clarke's election summary a la
That a review of this nature can bewritten at all testifies to the generally high standards of previous Extravs inasmuch as they have for some years now established a formula guaranteeing a minimum content of expertise and humour. Any Extrav producer must inevitably put his personal stamp on his production and if he can come up with a formula of his own (e.g. Whitehouse '66) so much the better. The sad fact of the matter is that Extrav '69 will be remembered for its total disorganisation and lack of control. For its "just of the building site" costuming. For its resurrection of the male ballet as performed by females (ironic twist of fate). For an opening chorus which slumped from its initial promise to what resembled a stage version of the first scene of Space Odyssey 2001: with over-amplification. But above all it will be remembered for its refusal to acknowledge that humour is an extremely serious business which requires intense rehearsal and sincere approach.
Perhaps Shakespeare, whose work was put through the mill to no purpose, in this Extrav should have the last word.
"Nothing shall come of nothing".
Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound is a very funny play and is being presented by a particularly strong cast at Downstage at the moment. There is a play within a play; it is a conventional murder mystery, and is being watched by Moon, a stand-in intellectual critic, and Birdboot, a lecherous reviewer (perhaps for the Daily Mirror).
These two, sharing the auditorium with us, talk all through the thriller, and we come to see their desires rising in the play itself and affecting its course. The satire, of the kind of murder play that Repertory presents, and the kind of review that Salient presents, is highly intelligent, but not, I think, handled intelligently the whole time.
The actors in the "play" have a very easy time. They are mostly good actors, but sadly, there is little challenge for them in such deliberately cardboard roles. Only Pat Evison seemed able to make her part more than a pale shadow of a very stock character. Its appropriate that the onstage "actors" should be consciously striking attitudes, but sometimes, as in the exaggerated embraces Ken Blackburn has to go through with Raeburn Hirsch, the action becomes too corny. And it's not enough to say that it's meant to be corny; that doesn't excuse sloppiness. That bit of business is unsubtle and out of place.
The real people, Moon and Birdboot have a hard job. They are themselves caricatures; some of their lines are tired Beckett-Pinter imitation dialogue, some are word play of varying quality and some are very effective extended satire on slick reviewing; yet later in the play they must become human so that we are sympathetic when the play becomes Deep.
And yet I felt uncertain as to whether the play was intended to be basically serious or not. If it was, should we not have felt more involved with the critics than with the mock-play? A friend, with me, said she began to feel annoyed at the interruptions of the two men at the side, more interested in the "play" itself.
And if the whole thing was being tackled lightly, and for the laughs? I'm strongly inclined to approve. I don't think the play is Serious or Meaningful Deep Down.
It is a very amusing play and very worth seeing, for an intellectual wit. When you go take money for an ice cream. Downstage now has a portable nibble nook in the person of the lovely
I Consider myself eminently suited to review music for students. I have never studied music, and have never written a newspaper review. I am thus in the same position as 90% of students at this university, and so this review should be very readable. However please take note if you are reading for laughs, you might as well turn the page now.
Of the many recordings Decca has to its credit, perhaps the most noteworthy is its great achievement Der Ring Des Nibelung by
The Ring itself is, of course far too big too big to review in one sitting, so I will concentrate on the prelude to this 19 disc tetralogy, Das Rheingold and the second major stereo recording attempted by Decca. (The first was
As an opera (which Das Rheingold was composed between 1852 and 1854. It was first performed on 22 September, 1869, at Munich. (The N.Z.B.C. plans to mark this occasion by broadcasting the entire
The recording of Das Rheingold (ZAL4260-6) is par excellence. The clarity of tone and the lack of static in the quiet passages, and this remember, in a ten-year-old recording. Also I noticed a remarkable lack of that far too prevalent distortion which occurs when a line of music can be plainly heard premature to its actual playing.
I will admit however that the thunder (side 6 following Donner's Heda Heda Hedo) is a trifle overdone, and indeed becomes rather unreal, submerging the rumbling of thunder in one solid, drawn out blast. This, however, is more than compensated for by the immediately preceding orgiastic sound of Donner's hammer striking the rock. A most magnificent cataclysmic clunk. Alas even Decca's technicians haveexpressed disappointment over the piling of the gold (side 5). I sympathise with their problem, as no bank would loan them a large pile of gold ingots they had to make do with tin.
Every care was taken with keeping the dramatic mood of the performance by recording entire scenes rather than taking five minute snatches as had been the custom until then. Another novel idea was that of the singers performing the appropriate stage movements. Thus in scene 3 (side 3) we have the invisible Alberich actually running about as he whips mine just as he would should you be seeing the opera. This creates a far more real performance than in the case if the technicians had moved his voice about electronically and it also made the performance less microphone-concious this all added up to a most real performance. It also means fantastic stereo.
The performers themselves were drawn from all over Europe and the United States and assembled in Vienna.
Rupert Glover: The Wine and The Garlic, Pegasus Press. Price $1.25. 32 pp.
It Would seem that in this short volume of verse
His poem "Hallucinations" is a strange technical piece of work which is open I think to several interpretations of meaning. The reference in the first stanza to remembering
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This mastery of words is a continual feature of the book. His other long poem "The Legacy" contains pathos, humour, bitterness, love, anger—all of people and events, all short pungent lines yet softened by the care put into them. Glover's work is neat, seldom a cliche, seldom an ugly sound. For example part of the recital of the bequests—
The only poem I am rather disappointed he included in this collection is "To Literary Critics" too trivial for this collection and perhaps included deliberately because it brings up an inevitable comparison of Rupert with
Rupert's short poems otherwise represent a refreshing variation of exhilerating moods. Unlike recent overseas trends, if one can judge by such collections as Love Love Love and World Makes the Love Go Round". Glover's poems are controlled, vibrant, clearly original. There is the gay witticism of his poem "Keeping the Ledger" balanced by the deeper tonal difference of a poem like "Nightshade" and the beauty of the poem "Song from Saigon".
Almost all of Rupert Glover's poems are worth reading and his selection of his own poems like his editorship of the Arts Festival publication Strawberry Fields is careful and constructive. His writing has a directness and the considered forthrightness of a mature poet. For example "Song of Saigon" skilfully combines three themes— parallels in classical mythology, peasant culture and sexual allegory.
"Look, look! they are fighting for me. Achilles has dealt a crushing blow, and swept priams men off the bushy plain in a wave of tidal flame.
If this goes on I shall walk in the dusty agora, missing the marketing fish, missing the abundance of rice. I shall be a gift from a god's pocket, a mind's-eye prize.
And yet the poem is successful, complete, with no preteniousness or undue sentimentality.
It Is weeks like the past ones that Wellington filmgoers come to realise how much they rely on the three independent cinemas to supplement the normal circuit theatres. Wellington is the only metropolitan centre in New Zealand which has independent second-run theatres. In the past three or four years I've been in Wellington almost every film still available has been screened. The independents also provide an outlet for first-run films which would otherwise not have made it.
Some of these films have been justifiably ignored, but as the circuits take only commercial considerations into account, many of them have had considerable credit: it is only a pity that their appeal wasn't more widespread. Good films which have seen the light of day through this method over the past few years include The Luck of Ginger Coffey, this Property is Condemned, It Happened Here, several Russian features and the odd Hammer production.
The latest of these worthy first-runs is Four in the Morning (NZFS), a small British feature which the Salient critic commended last year after it was previewed. The work of a young British director
Another attraction of the independents is their flexibility and the ability to tailor programmes to suit certain audiences. Students have this year got a very good deal at the Princess with specially arranged Sunday screenings (with concessions) of films not available to the Film Society. I have also been informed that the Princess now offers student concessions during the week as well (30c in the daytime and 40c at night). Lester's under-rated musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was billed with the incomparable
And coming up this weekend is a programme which departs from the usual Sunday entertainment. The Czechoslovakian film Assassination, which has had only limited release so far (I haven't seen it) is on with a documentary on Hitler, The Black Fox, which will no doubt be full of the usual atrocity stuff and original footage.
The Roxy this week revived a good Western of the old sort: A Good Day for a Hanging (Columbia) which was notable for a strong plot and its ability to twist various strands together in a disturbing way. A young outlaw (
The townspeople become suspicious of MacMurray (not long before they were already with a lynching party for the outlaw) and eventually get up a petition of clemency. The appeal is successful but before Vaughan can be informed his friends have broken into the jail and released him: he now cannot escape though his death sentence has been commuted. It remains for the marshall to shoot him, on the gallows especially built for the execution, thus exacting a crude revenge. It's a vicious circle of twisted loyalties and conflicting motives. On the surface it looks like an anticapital punishment movie with a cop-out ending, or, more nastily, an anti-anti-capital punishment movie which had all along played with liberal sentiments.
But unlike most "message" films the victim was guilty of the crime he was guilty of the crime he was accused of—the audience knew but not the cast—an interesting development which made for above routine stuff. The director was Nathan Juran, at first an art director who later turned to action films with the emphasis on historical and fantasy themes which called for lots of special effects (the best being Jason and the Argonauts where a whole army of skeletons intervene in the quest for the Fleece).
Elsewhere Dino returns in another Matt Helm vehicle. It is interesting to speculate about how these particular concoctions are fabricated. The director, Kiss Me Stupid), its risque dialogue and blatant Playboy-style sex. The next two Helms were far inferior, both directer by faithful Hollywood hack Genghis Khan). Martin's reluctance to go on location has impaired the technical side of these films (lots of back projection and second unit stuff) though I don't blame him for not learning his lines.
It would seem then, like the Bond series, that though film-makers of some ability coped with routine stuff, only a great effort can do anything with it. Most directors would feel it was sufficient to let it pass and wait for the next, more rewarding project. That is an unkind fact of Hollywood: but it doesn't dispel the fact that other commercial directors are unwilling to direct crap in the hope of better things. Unfortunately only too few have that kind of opportunity. So don't think too hard on poor old Phil: it was his misfortune also (being contracted to Columbia) that he had to take over the western The Long Ride Home (not seen here yet) when
The glamour sports event of the last week of term promises to be the Botany-Zoology rugby match to be held on the Boyd-Wilson Field on Friday at 10.30 a.m.
The referee is (he wellknown Vic sporting personality
The game is to decide possession of the Kirk Cup for the first time in 28 years.
The original Kirk Cup was a tin fascimile presented by Professor Kirk and played for from
When Prof Kirk retired from the chair of biology in 1944 the students replaced the original cup with a genuine trophy cup to help perpetuate the annual rugby match.
However, this failed to arouse students from either department to any great physical effort and the competition has been allowed to lapse until this year.
A spokesman for one of the teams informed me that the players have been selected by ability so it should be interesting to sec what the game turns out like.
The teams are as follows:
(Emergencies included)
On the composition of the teams Zoology would seem to be far superior with Botany scraping the bottom of the barrel to make up a team.
But, the Botany cheer squad of
University gave an inept display in going down 1-3 to Raumati Hearts on 26 April.
After a fairly even first half, and the half-time score 1-1, it seemed possible that University could register its first championship points of the season.
However, the Raumati side dispelled any such hopes when it scored goals in the 10th and 30th minutes of the second half.
The performance of the University side was most disapponting, especially in the second half, and Raumati Hearts fully deserved its victory as its play was superior in all departments.
The second team lost its unbeaten record when it lost 3-1 to Western Suburbs.
In a fairly even game, the Varsity side gave the best performance seen from it so far this season.
The result was in doubt until a few minutes from the end, when with the score 2-1 in Western Suburbs favour and Varsity attacking strongly, Western Suburbs broke away and scored the goal that put the result beyond doubt.
The third team moved to the top of the Fourth Division by virtue of its 4-3 victory over Seatoun in the early game at Kelburn Park.
The win was a particularly good one as the University side was depleted by defections because of the long weekend.
The game was a personal triumph for Varsity skipper,
The other University goal was scored by
Down in the grades the only team to win was the Senior Seventh Division "A" team, which beat Stop Out 1-0.
The only goal of the game was scored by
The Senior Seventh Division B team had a bye and all the other teams lost.
Scores and scorers:
Senior First Division team lost to Raumati Hearts 1-3,
Ian Hunt, who finished third in the 6 miles Easter Tournament, massacred the opposition in the VUW Harrier Club's Novice Cup Race.
He turned in a record-breaking performance of 13 min. 46.8 sec. for the hilly 2½-mile course run from the Worser Bay Surf Club.
His time took 9 sec. off the record set by
But the open record of 13 min. 40 sec. set by
The Novice Cup is competed for by harriers who have not won a major cross country race since leaving secondary school.
Second in this year's Novice Cup was a newcomer to the club from Switzerland,
He returned a creditable 14 min. 6 sec. to be 10 sec. clear of club captain
Last year's Novice Cup winner,
Second was the titleholder
The V.U.W. Harrier Club in a special general meeting held recently elected its fourth ever Life Member,
Not least of his work for the club has been his laying of the course each year for the Club's own champs held at Paekakariki.
The other life members are Dr.
Highlights for club members this year promise to be the trip to Massey, the centre champs at Blenheim, Winter Tournament at Dunedin, the Wellington-Masterton relay and the Takahe-Akaroa relay at Christchurch in September.
New Teams For Term II: As the first term intramural finals in badminton, soccer, basketball, and volleyball have now been played, the second term knockout competitions are being drawn up immediately.
If you have a new team which you wish to enter in the second term competitions, it is essential that you contact the Physical Welfare Staff before the end of Term— otherwise you will Not be included in the draw.
Intramural Results Monday (28 April-1 May) —Badminton League:
Geology, 28; Chemistry, 22; Staff, 21; Zoology, 21; English, 19; ELI, 15; Australia, 12; Geography, 12; Glenmore, 6; Philsophy, 6.
Tuesday — Badminton League: Biochem, 11; Maths, 10; Education, 9; History, 7; Helen Lowry, 7; Q.A., 5; 2 + 2, 4; Hutt 2.
Wednesday — Soccer
Intramural Games are played during the lunch hours—between 12-2 p.m.
You may enter a team in any of the following competitions:
Mon.—Badminton, 4 players (2 men, 2 women).
Tues.—Badminton, 4 players (2 men, 2 women).
Wed.—Soccer — 4 players (men).
Thurs.—Basketball, 5 players (men or women).
Fri.—Volleyball, 6 players (mixed).
Results: Tawa 6, Weir (All Stars) 2; Fiji 2, Weir (N-N) 0; Samoa 5, Treasury 1; St. Pat's 1, Johnsonville 10; Law (Staff) 2, Geography 10; Lower Hutt City 4, Taita 1; Scots 2, Law 4.
Thursday —
Early season lack of combination has been evident in many University Club teams. This must be overcome quickly if our teams are to win games early.
Many of the lower grade teams a remain at this early stage, rather unknown quantities.
But the powerful Junior 5th C division team has already shown it will be difficult to beat.
Both the Senior B (2 wins, 1 loss) and the Senior C team (1 win, 2 losses) have exhibited considerable potential and should find themselves in the top six of their respective grades when time for grade division comes. A comparative lack of weight in the forwards of these teams is being overcome as players become fully fit.
The Senior A team with three wins in four games is at time of writing second equal on the points ladder.
Though the team went down to Petone (25 April) the pack went as eight men rather more than had been evident in earlier games.
The backs tried hard, but close marking and fine general defence by Petone kept them, out.
Mention should be made of new fullback
This year the club has 14 teams entered — two fewer than last season.
This drop in support is reflected in the fact that only 19 players turned up to the trials for the under-19 team.
This drop in the number of young players coming forward is both difficult to account for, and disturbing to the club.
The club views this grade with the greatest of interest as it is from here that the stars of tomorrow will come from.
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Quote of the week; "A farmer stealing cows is like a Bishop committing sacrilege"—lawyer in Auckland court.
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Idea of the week: Swapping Stud. Ass. Presidents. If we had somebody who could defend University publications like Auckland's Pres.
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Definition of the week: Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man; Socialism is just the opposite.
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There have, we hear, been seven Special General Meetings of Socialist Club to decide what rules it should ask Spartacist Club to accept for the annual rugby match between the two clubs. Spartacist Club will take part it is rumoured only if Toby Hill referees.
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Will the new National Party President become a Trotskyist? Salient: writing 1000-word articles at the drop of a hat; growing a beard; keeps the Party constitution behind locked doors, All we need now is another Boshier affair.
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Proverb of the week:The remedy of a hang-up is a lay down.
The latest rumour viciously slandering Gerard Curry is that he writes under the pseudonym of
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The new North Island organiser for the Labour Party was former national organiser for the Young Scots National League. What bets on Big Norm as first PM of Scotland?
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Over 350 students attended a Special General Meeting of the V.U.W. Students' Association last week called by the AntiRacialist Committee to condemn the awarding of an Honorary Degree to Sir
The key motion, the second on the order paper, was lost by a large margin.
"This is a notably tolerant statement," he said.
"It is not good enough."
Mr. Williams defined "condone" to include "overlooking".
"Sir Richard overlooked a number of facets of the South African situation," he said.
"If one has to be polite to apartheid, one should not accept an invitation in the first place."
Seconding the motion,
This he said, was sufficient grounds for the motion.
The tone of the next few speakers was sharply critical of the motion.
"This is one of the most illjudged, unfortunate motions ever 10 be put to the Association," Mr. Wallace said.
"Sir
Mr. Wallace said a phrase had been taken out of context," in a tragically or stupidly misguided way."
One of the Anti-Racialist Committee,
"If Sir Richard wishes to correct the impression he has made, he could make one extra statement."
Mr. Gager said Sir Richard was asked by the Sunday Times, but declined refusing to "comment on anything controversial.'
Mr. Gager gave the example of one South African court where an African, if guilty, was fined and sent away the same day, but any pleading not guilty were held in custody for at least one week.
"Is this how the rule of law is being upheld in South Africa?" he asked.
Opposing the motion,
He was the second graduate from this university to be made Chief Justice, he said.
Sir Richard was to the forefront of law reform.
He said Sir Richard was chairman of a Government Committee on absolute liability in motor accidents.
"Sir Richard gave the sole dissenting paper when he said the test of how much Compensation should be decided on the basis of how badly the person was injured, rather than the present basis of who was at fault," he said.
"This is a much more humane attitude."
The next speaker, Mr. Keating, said the motion showed," immaturity or uncivilised disrespect."
"It is a vicious personal attack on a highly respected man in the community," he said.
"The Chief Justice made a non-committal statement which in no way relates to previous speeches where he has vigorously supported individual rights."
Mr. Keating quoted from a speech Sir Richard had made last year illustrating his point.
"Against the statements made in the Evening Post weighs thirty years of creditable endeavour," Mr. Rennie said.
"Practically every other action in Sir Richard Wild's career negates the interpretation Mr. Williams has put on his comments."
The President of the Students Association,
Mr. Curry said the motion should be lost "In view of the slender amount of evidence."
One speaker later, the motion was put, and lost by a large margin.
The New Zealand Opera Company will late this month present the Australasian premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" at the Opera Centre, Karori.
The "Rake's Progress", first performed in Venice in 1951, is based on a series of Hogarth's prints and is a fable resembling a morality play.
Musically, the opera is of great transparency and rhythmic diversity and contains arias, recitatives and ensembles with all solo parts being written in a florid style.
Raymond Boyce's set, ingeniously designed for simplicity, overcomes the problems of presenting nine different scenes in the Opera Centre's intimate atmosphere. By incorporating two special machines and supplementing these with smaller ones, much of the scenery will be projected with slides on to special wall linings. This method allows great scope for both colour and effect. This complements the semi-modern costumes.
The opening night, 22 May, is also a special "Student Night" at concession rates. "Dinner, Champagne, and Opera" evenings at reasonable prices, similar to those which were completely sold out when last presented, will be available on the two Saturday evenings, 31 May and 7 June.
Special vouchers will be issued to the audience entitling them to early preferential bookings for the Wellington season of "Carmen" with Kiri te Kanawa and a Covent Garden tenor.
The cast for "Rake's Progress" includes
• Picture shows Stravinsky receiving standing ovation during his concert in Wellington in 1961 when he conducted some of his own works including "Appollon Musagate", and the Lullaby and Finale of the "Firebird".
The Executive of the Students' Association is to approach the University Administration with a view to obtaining a holiday on the occasion of the annual Rugby match between the Spartacist Club and the Socialist Club. This direction was passed overwhelmingly at the SGM last week.
A constitutional motion was also passed.
It read:
That Part 1, Section 3 (2) of the VUWSA Constitution be amended by inserting the word "office" between the words "ten" and "days".
A motion that in line with NZUSA policy on international sport it be obligatory for all affiliated clubs in their public statements and in their participation in policy making in the national sporting bodies to which they are affiliated to state this policy and actively promote it was lost.
A motion of no-confidence in Roger Wilde as Editor of Salient was also defeated.
The last motion of the evening was an attempt to disassociate VUWSA from NZUSA policy an international sport and support the New Zealand Rugby Union over the 1970 tour.
After little debate, the motion was put and defeated 80—61.
A Motion that the Students' Association urge the Government that all restrictions on Fijian immigration into New Zealand be removed was defeated.
The motion, debated after a seemingly interminable number of procedural motions, was moved by
"There are those who say that before we can condemn immigation policies in another country, we must condemn our immigration policies," he said.
Mr. Gager said the Fijian population was allowed in at very low numbers, and at very low wages.
He said they received large cuts in their wages to pay for board.
"Even if they came in as an entire community, they would not upset our labour force," he said.
Seconding the motion, Mr.
"The first is tertiary education, in which they are generally very successful," he said.
"The second is to learn something of the cultural life of the community, and is denied by the Labour Department."
Mr. Lawrence said New Zealand's immigration policy was "pure racial discrimination."
Mr. Rennie spoke of the racial dis-harmony he had witnessed during a recent visit to Fiji.
"Despite a numerical superiority, the Indian population has only a quarter of the seats," he said.
Mr. Rennie said the motion was too vague and unsubstantiated.
The International Affairs Officer, Mr.
"In
"New Zealand has the same immigration procedures as anyone else, including the same passport."
Mr.
"They are impractical and generally objectionable," he said.
But the motion was insufficiently explained.
"The problem of immigration is the absorption of the immigrants into the society," he said.
The motion was then voted upon and defeated.
Two motions, that Sir
This move followed the defeat of the motion condemning Sir Richard Wild for statements made after a visit to South Africa.